v18: noir&blanc

sherlene

the girl's 18. stuck on a small island, also known as the little red dot on the global map. presently living a mundane life contributing to the unemployment rate and chionging driving lessons are what she does nearly daily. well, here records some of the interesting and amusing moments she enjoys. :D

turns 365 days older on the 7th of Nov and is deeply in love with the colour purple. currently indulging in SUPER JUNIOR! :D

Super Junior M - 迷 (Me)

get it in stores 2 or 9 May depending on your region!

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hooligans crashed & graffitied.

currently hooligan(s) rotting here.

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Montag, März 31

life couldn't get better 4:43 PM

but it could though.
i'm in need of luck :D
& a MIRACLE!!

ughhhh so now my time's filled with drowning myself into SJ and DBSK vids. AHAHAHAH. okay ship says im living in the past, cos im like enjoying those 04 05 06 days. LOL.

okay im currently back to my fangirl days... hahah 56's so yesterday. =X
oh well, at first i thought i didnt exactly enjoy kpop or jpop (i still prefer kpop) cos i couldnt understand what they were saying. but i guess times have changed. and the melody plays a 99% part in me liking a song!

haha. so now im hooked onto SJ's Miracle. after i heard it when Eunhyukkie was talking about Junsu! haha. :) those 2 have sucha wonderful friendship it really makes ppl jealous cos they're so popular and yet have each other as best friends for life! ughhhh.

so im gonna flood myself with SJ vids for now, indulge in Donghae, amaze at Heechul and laugh at Leeteuk and his gags..... haha theres so many SJ vids to watch and im glad nows a good opportunity cos i have nothing to do at home! haha.

i think i've watched so many Miracle perfs i can totally memorize the whole routine already. and perhaps the lyrics soon. haha. i have the sudden urge to become a full fledge SJ fan and like jet over to wherever to catch their con. :(

okayyy calm down. haha Bel says im very kua zhang.
sometimes thats what boredom does to you. hah. :D but i like!
some really cute Donghae gifs and Miracle MV! =D

Labels: sj

Samstag, März 29

winter wonderland 10:54 AM

so we went to this 'winter wonderland' in sg yesterday at the other side of the island which i very very very seldom frequent. gosh i took like 1hr+ to reach there! and NTU is like even further! with NUS being abt 1hr plus away too. :( why arent there any unis in the east!?

ugh.

so anyway, $27 for 2 hrs snow play and science centre admission ticket. we shd have gotten the 1 hr one la. cos we got really freezing cold inside after 1/2 hr! its a freaking -6 deg! like colder than when i was skiing in Kangwon Land! okay maybe not. cos i was wrapped up like some popiah there... and the warm sun kinda sucked the coldness away :)

so snow city was kinda boring as i remembered. just a small little snow play area and a bigger slope. pathetic man. and the slope was so steep. and we were just able to snow-tube down the slope repeatedly. and the snow really sucked. i dunno what chemicals they used to make it la. its like salty... and hard. so when you scrape your butt as you slide down the slope, it really hurts.

rmb this?

at Everland where they actually had tubes that had backing! so you wouldn't get your butt all wet. and there was a travelator up to the top of the slope ok! much more high-class! ahaha. okay enough of me complaining about snow city.

i so missed the science centre! damn omnimax movie was so ex we decided against it. :( and peewee got herself shocked with the shocker. i think the machine's pretty screwed though. it says 1000 jolts went through her but she didnt feel anything. =/ chin got frozen at the snow chamber so bad his lips went dry and bin was mean enough to keep throwing snow at me.

haha. trying to plan a prawn fishing outing for the class next week. funny why chiew said, "hmmm, wonder how you got the idea." haha sadly it wasnt the way you thought it was!

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class dinner on wed at PS Swensens. went PS 3 days in a row man. sian already. haha. anw had so much fun reminiscing about school life. and talking crap. and sharing one giant earthquake. sigh, they missed my yam ice-cream order! :(

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been watching SuJu's EHB for awhile now. after Bel's recommendation. and i think Donghae's the cutest. haha. Kangin can be quite AA sometimes, even Bel agrees! and Heechul really resembles Danny Noriega. cannot tahan! esp when he did this 'Tell Me' dance in ep 6! haha. click.

Donghae & Heechul.

so cute! haha.

American Idol's Danny Noriega

vs.
SuJu's Kim Heechul

OKAY ITS 90% DUE TO THE HAIR.

haha. & damn, my f21 item went oos. and my alt wasnt ordered :(

Labels: happy, shopping

Dienstag, März 25

hola! 10:11 PM

been busy with holiday scrap booking ideas since there seems to be an offer on photo prints and mum's bugging me to settle the china & korea pictures. which sucks cos i dont have much time to edit the leftover Shanghai pictures. sheesh. its like 3 mths already! haha sian.

driving today was shat cos i got the relief again. once again, i narrated my whole story to mum and indeed she thinks he isnt very encouraging. bleah. my heart never pounded so fast before okay. which sucks. again, cos my confidence on the road has stooped to an all time low! FOR NOW. fortunately & hopefully.

so anyway, i'm going to PS again tmr. ha! like 3 days in a row. ironic cos today this lcd surveyor guy asked me how frequent i visited PS and i was like, err once a month?? sigh. well. dinner with the lovely classmates tmr and Horton! okay. i wasnt very interested in Horton but since it has garnered raved reviews... maybe i shall open my sights to it then! but 3 days in a row is seriously super sian...

:( i'm like dying to go abroad also please. i wanna go hk or tw!! sob sob. and settling all the uni applications have finally let me heave a sigh of relief... until all the letters of acceptance pour in or until i need to bury myself in frustration while i try to appeal for a place. esp with the news going about NTU's triple sharing system and the freshmen intake increasing this year and etc.

anw, watched Vantage Point with Chiew and Bel on Mon at PS. haha okay it was my idea since i wanted to spend my movie money... :S but i didnt know i was going to be there repeatedly for the next 2 days!

okay, so VP was a rather interesting and amusing movie i'd say. but it's like unrealistic la... cos, Dennis Quaid really 死不了! as quoted from this guy beside me. haha. so they rewind the stories of different individuals a few times, like 5 or 6 times which gets you quite frustrated cos you keep seeing the same scenes except in different points of view. but still, it gets 悶 la. and every time it shows 12:00:00 pm, the whole cinema goes "URGHHHH~" haha damn funny.

thought Matthew Fox was quite redundant. haha. :) i cant wait for Street Kings now! looks interesting. and hot hot hot hot hot KEANU REEVES is acting in it! omgosh those Speed days are still fresh in my mind. haha!

so yes back to VP. felt like we kena cheated cos the movie wasnt exactly filmed in Salamanca, Spain as where the Plaza Mayor (where the whole plot begins) is located. so the film crew actually created a duplicate and filmed scenes in Mexico. like hello. different continents, dey! and haha there seemed to be many geographical goofs as well.

other than that, the plot was pretty creative, though resembling alot of the Ocean's series which i love oh-so-dearly. and the car chase scene was cool. haha. so those who havent watched it, keep your eyes peeled till that scene ends! and the funny thing in the goofs part was that i read Dennis Quaid was filmed driving in 1st gear through out. HAHA. =X

p.s/ EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS. CYRIL TAKAYAMA IS ♥ ! haha. he's really really amazing. go check out his other videos on youtube!

Labels: driving, movie, sian

Sonntag, März 23

joy to the world! 7:15 PM

F.I.R autograph last dec! haha i found this pic hidden in my Korea Trip folder. oops. haha 建寧老師 was so nice to write my name for me! and take up 阿沁's space. haha.

Ice-Skating at Leisure Park Kallang!

love these peeps so much and really thankful that God has granted me such a wonderful class :) finally got a chance to meet up with these bunch of people like ever since CNY. yeah it wasn't THAT long ago but considering the ns guys are now on block leave! its the best opportunity to meet up isnt it! :)

so... all those discussions about going to sepang for the f1 grand prix, ubin chalet or even to redang/tioman for a few days proved futile. haha. darn it. no one's ever free for a few days. guys in ns + working individuals = chaos! so no point... hence came this ice-skating outing! haha. anyhow Uncle Paul's under the management of this rink at Leisure Park Kallang together with Kallang Bowl so we got some time free! and the rink was really quiet so it was good for us cos we ended up playing catching with Gland being the catcher till the guy told us to maintain moving in an anti-clockwise manner. =/ haha. splash cold water lor. but luckily it closed late! 12am on eve of public hols! :D

was kinda rusty at first but after awhile it was damn fun! haha and there were some professional youth skaters there who were doing spins so gracefully! *envious* haha.

ah well had so much fun joking around with them and hanging out and trying to teach those who couldn't ice-skate... i really hope there'll be a roller-blading outing some time! HAHA.

xxxxx

Mum's birthday bbq dinner at Godpa's on Fri! had some wonderful food esp this marinated meat from Mmmm's (its supposed to stand for marinated meat and much more, i think)! yay i love barbecues! haha and korkor Darryl taught me a good method to test the marshmallows! haha.

xxxxx

finally met Kris yest at Parkway for Sakae & her bday! like since A divs man! :D had a good talk and catching-up-time with her! must meet up more often! haha.

walked around Parkway and found it pretty boring as usual.

left with Mum after that to get some bedsheets for my silk inlays! alright. dinner time. & then back to uni applications.

Labels: 06s23, happy

Dienstag, März 18

flustered 2:07 PM

so NUS Open Hse came and went. i guess my options are pretty much fixed, shall just try to do the applications asap. Went to school yest for stuff and talked to Mr Ho and Mr Yoong. haha gave me a fright man. Mr Ho's his funny self. i really miss school. :(

and it gets quite boring nowadays cos im still jobless and most people are working :( blah.

anyhow, my F21 items came today! like just! yay my dress is kinda short though. my gold wallet's just so gold. haha.

came back from my driving lesson and felt pretty demoralized. stressed once again. :( my hand and foot coordination sucks. blah maybe i shd just change to auto. and practicing consistently is so impt! i've not been driving for 12 days and i'm like rusty alr. grrr... more lessons needed but mum doesnt wanna sponsor me. :(

i hope it'll be better on thurs!
darn. threadless is having USD$9 onwards sale. and im broke. :( ok i shd get more 'dressier' tops instead. haha!

Labels: stressed, tired

Sonntag, März 16

split second 2:11 AM

yesterday, well 2 days ago. after coming back from IDP at RELC, i met with a car accident. although i suffered no serious injuries, somehow mentally its quite... hmmm, i'd say. horrendous. its just that first-time experience that gives you a jolt in your senses. like... you never knew life could be so fragile, and anything could happen in 1 split second.

so it happened like this, Dad was driving along the ecp and the next car in front was like 50m away? so he accelerated... and somehow, when he did. i got an ominous feeling suddenly sprouting out in me. its just like, crap, why did Dad do that?! and luckily i wasn't asleep! cos usually i'd sleep in the car and all. and then this taxi driver stopped in front. like all of a sudden i dont know why. so since Dad was travelling at quite a fast speed, the braking distance he needed was further right? (yea BTT stuff!) and he did manage to stop in time. barely missing the damned taxi in front.

BUT.

the cars behind didn't. so another car smashed into Dad's boot like 1 sec later, and another damned taxi smashed into that car a millisecond later. so its like double impact. and of cos since i was sitting behind, i experienced the most impact. and the horrible thing was, my seatbelt wasn't on! so i jerked forward and hit my head against the front seat. i guess it wasn't that serious till i got some concussion but it did hurt to some extent. Thank God for cushioned seats. and then i kinda sprained a little of my neck cos of the impact. it was one blardy huge BANG.

like ugh.
mentally it has been a nightmare.
physically, i think i'm suffering symptoms of mental trauma.
that i get random chest pains and headaches.
a slight one, so i guess nothing much to worry about.
Mum says unless i start puking then its not so bad.
:(

i'd never want to experience it again.

so the car will be sent for repairing on Mon. and the first thing Mum asked me was, so are you frightened to drive cars now?

well. my immed answer was, NO LA!
because i think i'm kiasee enough and hence i drive very carefully. and hopefully other road users will also be kiasee enough to drive smartly and responsibly! sometimes, i just dislike the driving etiquette of taxi drivers! they horn at learner drivers like their road belongs to them... and then they get frustrated when people unintentionally hog the road, and then when an accident happens, they try to get out of it fast when its their fault! like this maid who got killed along East Coast Road a few weeks ago.

SHE WAS WALKING ALONG THE PAVEMENT!?
like wth. and a taxi lost control and hit her until her leg got detached!?
how bad can that be!?
and the thing is that it happened so near my house... it could have been anyone close i knew, esp my grandmother and my other family members living 1 street away!

so the boot of the car's quite badly dented. and hopefully there'll still be a car to use when i get my license.

i pray that the mental trauma of some sort will disappear soon.
i wanna go driving so badly now. :(

Labels: 感想

Freitag, März 14

tears in heaven 12:44 AM

click to enlarge! i love love this picture! :D
see the heart beside my name? haha! kh's didn't have though!
ahhh! ♥♥♥小鬼!
黃鴻升你幾時來新加坡啊！

ok some random pictures i took with my phone while testing the mosaic function. haha ok didnt turn out very nice cos they were taken from a mag. =X

56! haha 孟哲's face got disfigured man! i couldn't even recognize him at first sight!

today was spent taking my cheque from the Sentosa Flowers job and then meeting Chiew at Amoy for lunch! ahhh the nasi lemak was as good as usual. but... again... the drumsticks were sold out! :( and although we came earlier than the prev time, there was no more egg! sad sad. anyhow the nice Uncle gave me 1 more otah and 1 fish cake to replace the egg. and more ikan billis! haha super nice and yummy.

met Bel at Bugis after that for Step Up 2. haha. So... it was pretty good. for the dance moves. storyline was typical. haha. some dance scenes were really commendable. yes yes, such as the one with Channing Tatum battling against the female lead. haha the trampoline in the middle of the floor was cool man. and the rain scene. which is the climax la. but it seems like they danced on mats and not the real streets. haha cheat! but okay since it'll be slippery and they'll get injuries and stuff.

so basically it had no link to the first instalment. it was okay i guess. the normal eye candy and the female lead and blah blah. hmmmm. been catching movies lately that lack proper, strong storylines which will leave hard impressions on you. rah! nvm next week's Vantage Point with Chiew and Bel! haha. pretty many nice movies coming up soon.

anyhow Bugis Street's getting boring selling the same type of clothes. am so desperate to get clothes that are hardly found in sg anyway. darn! like so little F21 sprees nowadays. i need retail therapy! :( and so so so craving for sushi!

:( haha some cute ___ ___ was on the train today! and then that ___ went to buy Ya Kun! haha 0_0 funny please. reminded me of the one i saw in tw. :( i miss tw badly too! rawr!

oh ya cant stand the rain these few days man. whats wrong with this monsoon weather! bleah. it makes it so difficult to go out. pity those taking their TP these few days. i hope it doesnt rain when its my turn :(

okay i kinda salvaged this layout on IE! hopefully it still works out. if it doesnt, it means IE isn't as good as Firefox! :S haha go get Firefox! :D

Labels: movie, shopping

Mittwoch, März 12

guess who? 11:52 AM

yesterday was a normal day, rushed out of the house to meet Bel (who was like 45 mins late!) at vivo for movie and some attempted shopping. haha. i usually spend the bulk of my money at PageOne getting mags anw. clothes are getting sooo expensive.

so we caught The Leap Years... which was okay. nothing v fantastic. yes advertising usually sways your decision. haha with all those interviewees on chn5 going "yes, everyone should watch it, its a really good movie. its reallllyyyyyyyy good." but it was okay. Ananda Everingham was good looking, didnt like his long tresses fantastically tho. hah!

it was perhaps a little draggy and cliched. sadly. would probably look forward to Step Up 2 and Vantage Point coming up soon! haha. Patrick Dempsey's Made of Honour looks super cute. lol. saw the trailer yest.

then we walked around and around. sadly couldnt find anything to buy. so we decided to eat ice cream just as we were nearing Ben & Jerry's. haha. so then Bel nudged me to look in front cos the blur me was like staring into B&J's already. and i was like. who's that? some SA person? and then i saw...

Tay Ping Hui (TPH)!
and Ann Kok!

okay at first i didnt see her. so there was this filming crew as well. and so coincidentally, as quoted from The Leap Years "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous - Albert Einstein", yeah they went into B&J's too! haha. we were not fans trailing them okay. i emphasize that. lol. so we thought they were gonna like take a break and eat ice cream too! cool right... yeah so we left our bags on this seat like near the windows and went to order our sundae... and then. everything happened. haha. they took out the cameras set and started filming! like goodness gracious. haha we're like the backdrop you know! i was telling chiew we should get paid for being extras on their show. tsk! anw... TPH was sitting like right beside me cos he eventually settled into another empty seat there. and Bel on my left. haha.

but the scene didnt involve him, only Ann Kok and her reel son, who was so adorable, so TPH had to pretend to use the newspapers to cover his face, cos he was the nearest to the camera. haha damn funny! cos he was covering himself and then the asst director kept saying, "Ping Hui, sorry you have to cover yourself!" and then he'd give us this raised-eyebrows-to-sigh look... cos we were giggling at the comment. haha. then once i was like looking over to him, and then he gave this funny expression. dunno why he kept looking over to our side. maybe cos our sundae looked super delicious and his drink was just boring. hah!

so at first they were filming in from the entrance so perhaps our full profiles werent taken. and also cos TPH's newspaper helped to cover us. but after a few scenes, and some of the small boy crying... (he was damn pro la! we didnt even know he started crying...like there was no need for his mother to help him to cry or smth) they decided to turn the camera to face us! like wth! i was calm and collected throughout ok. haha TPH's not like my absolute favourite but ok la, i like him as an actor. so he was like looking over occasionally and Bel was fidgeting trying not to get taken by the 鏡頭... and then yes, suddenly the cameras were facing us! and so Bel was asking the filming crew, 可以走嗎？and i was like halfway through my waffle biscuit! rawr! haha i went WHAT?! and then she like tried to siam away from the 鏡頭 alr. sian. haha so i had to like swallow the biscuit and chuck it in my mouth. so unglam please. i bet TPH was like laughing at us for being so frantic or something. haha.

basically we left the place after that. like half an hour of stardom eh! haha. quite cool. it was purely coincidence. the times i'd be 1m away from someone of celebrity status would usually be on purpose! haha. didnt ask him for a photo cos they were like busy filming anyway. and he wasnt 羅祥 or 56 or... someone else! haha. but it was just so funny. haha. the whole time we were at B&J's.

thats Tay Ping Hui in yellow. haha since we didnt wanna go back so near i just 偷拍-ed 2 shots.

and since i decided to upload photos from my phone, here are some i took with my G600! :)

haha Grace's 9連拍 at Grand Copthorne while we were waiting for 56. lol. my G600's pretty cool for this!

managed to do a contrasting effect on this picture above!

and another 2 mosaic pictures of 小鬼!

and another of KONE's 精選集 which i tried finding so hard before it appeared at Gramophone! :D miss them so bad!

shall post my 搞什麽鬼簽名版 soon! haha kh helped me get my name signed on it! haha with a heart beside! :D

Labels: crazes, happy

Dienstag, März 11

those days 2:52 AM

got a new layout done, barely touched photoshop except for selection of colours. haha. not that extravagant as compared to the prev one though. so shall just settle for a simple one with tables.

the prev one is still, and will always be, my most proudest work. haha!

haha the 4 kids minus rachel. we're still sitting at the 'children's table' at family dinners anyway, unless there's a table big enough to accommodate everyone. but usually there isnt. hah.

they have changed so much over the years, and many a time, reminiscing the past does bring back good ol' memories... those innocent, naive and carefree days where worrying was never common.

dad was saying he caned me once when i was 7 yrs old cos i was super rebellious (eh? doesnt sound like me can! haha) . he even told Aunt Jessie my whole arm swelled like some sweet potato. i cant even remember what happened exactly. i guess the human brain really chooses to dispose horrible memories that have the potential of plaguing us our whole lives. sometimes, there are so many things that you'd like to remember dearly, cherishing moments that occur once in a lifetime and embracing those which in days to come will frequent our lives.

yet there's so much a capacity to the human brain... sometimes dementia hits, old folks go senile, Alzheimer's strikes... and so many more unfortunate occurrences.

if only brains were like computers, where you could increase the internal memory or store it elsewhere in a portable HDD.

if only the real world was a magical realm, cos i'd really like to own a pensieve. and then, with just a flick of the wand, i get to travel back in time, and relive those wonderful moments that "eternalize" themselves in our cells.

:)
hmmm. maybe the wonders of science will indeed enable us to do so one fine day.
hopefully, it'll be before i turn senile and grow wrinkled and white.
and by then, maybe i'll be rich enough to travel into space with Virgin Atlantic.
and dispose my unhappy pensieve and let it self-destruct in the universe above.

Labels: 碎碎念

Sonntag, März 9

i've got sunshine 11:47 PM

although it may seem cloudy at the moment...
i guess i'm still gonna look ahead no matter what. :)

overall, thank God for that improvement in my results. i'm happy for physics esp!
but sad in 2 subjects which i didnt manage to achieve my targets of.
1 being a horrible, incorrigible... hmmm, i'd say, nightmare.
other than that, i guess i'm pretty ok with my results.

hopefully, things will turn out for the better!

ntu open house today with classmates. haha. had so much fun joking and playing around with them! miss them lots man! sadly the guys cant enter uni with us. haha and by the time they do, we'll be their seniors already. also saw some familiar faces from tk...

had lunch at kfc jurong point, oh that place is so alien to me please, before heading down and exploring the campus + going for talks. dinner at fish & co imm was really cool cos we had a superb waiter! haha almost wanted to fake Jerome's bday (his was next) and he came by and asked, oh is it someone's bday?? haha it'll be a great show to watch then but sadly it didnt materialize. another guy had his bday though. my first time seeing the bday surprise thing..the staff were really hip and enthusiastic! haha it was hilarious, i'd probably never wanna go fish&co on my bday! haha.

okay friends do create smiles on my face.
thanks so much girls for the emotional support, i really needed it.

to all those results recipients, esp those who did well,
really proud of you guys... i guess slogging does help,
and luck as well... but ah well. :)
as long as we're happy and even if we aren't yet,
we should be cos life's too short for frowns yeah!

p.s this post was written yest but cursed blogger failed to work. so yeah. shall post it up today anyhow.

Labels: jiayou

Donnerstag, März 6

China Part IV 11:06 PM

so to take my mind off the dreaded AHEMs out tmr, shall just try to keep myself occupied with this... haha. driving today was okay i guess. though i hate it when im at slopes cos i tend to take slightly longer to move off and then... the car rolls back. haha. and kerb side stopping is another thing! rawr. it still takes practice for me to gauge where to stop. haha. going to start S course and crank courses soon! and thanks Lena for exchanging your date with me :)

Day 6: 9 Jan 08 Wed 乌镇>上海
breakfast was really yummy! the American breakfast spread was super fulfilling... i couldnt remember the exact details but i knew i kept going for more! and then i had a bad tummy ache. haha walked back the path outdoors and into the chalet room! immersing myself in that type of atmosphere was really an experience one-of-a-kind! and luckily it wasnt too chilly so it was relaxing and comfy walking outside.

so after breakfast it was walking around the 西栅景区 and just soaking into this 古镇 feel! its really very 小桥流水~ no cars... no pollution! very exhilarating! so it was basically more exploring of the place. its like one oval shaped island... with the canals and all running through the middle. the prev night, we walked on one side of the canal, and only managed to finish the same side the next day. but sadly it was really off-peak so... it was hardly any fun without people around enjoying it with you...

then we went to this 三寸金莲馆 Museum of Bound Women's Feet. which was really interesting. cos they had collections of different types of shoes which women with bound feet in the past wore... and they kinda showed the process of binding feet... and all the types of shoes through the ages, for what occasions, different classes... it was quite gross in the sense that the shoes were REALLY tiny.. like smaller than anyone's palm! (not a toddler though) but still absolutely tiny. and it was heart-wrenching to imagine the agony any olden day women had to go through just to look demure... and according to 元师傅, his mother bound her feet. and they could never let anyone see it, even when washing their feet, they had to do it discreetly. imagine not being able to enjoy foot massage proper! ouch.

the rest of the place was ancient, very vintage... very 古老. it was cool cos you know you'd never get to experience it elsewhere, and what other best place would be then in China itself?

the only post office was really cute. hahaha. and i loved the mailbox! :)

they had this 麻将 table there. haha will surely sit until butt pain. but sadly no kaki to play with me! :(

so we went exploring, saw these fish-catching black birds, which i first watched them on 世界那么大. haha. its like they tie a string at the bird's neck so when the bird flies into the water to get the fish, it wont swallow the fish and would have to spit it out to their owners. didnt manage to see the birds in action though. so we walked around the scenic area and explored 白莲塔 and a temple... then we left before lunch so that we could head down nearing Shanghai for lunch.

went for lunch at 同仁堂药膳. which was like... very healthy and herbal authentic Chinese dishes! it was a superb tantalising lunch which got us sweeping the food off the plates! for the record we actually finished everything there for the 1st time! its like those dishes which you can only enjoy at privileged, raved Chinese restaurants.

and then... they brought us to this room for a free foot massage. HAHA. while a TCM 师傅 came to 把脉. lol. so the elders got trad. chinese medicine for themselves. which cost A BOMB man. and i was supposed to get some health supplements as well but Mum 刷爆 her credit card. thats exaggerated right. haha. the massage was really refreshing after those many days of walking. was a great reward for Mama who's like almost 80 and has been tahan-ing rough terrain...

同仁堂's well renowned in China it seems, and it was their 师傅s who actually cured PM Lee Hsien Loong of his lymphoma. and it was the help of TCM which kinda boosted and aided the recovery. thats what i heard...

after that we reached 上海 and met our LG! who had a friend working at CCTV (i suppose) and in charge of all the foreign stars! walao! so the weekend we were in 上海, there was an awards ceremony with S.H.E, Jolin etc and her friend was IC! ARGH! and she was saying Rain was supposed to come but he wanted to bring his entourage of like 20 people and they requested to stay in some 6* hotel which was out of the station's budget! damn cool right! and since she was a tour guide, her friend had asked her to help with the booking! lol.

so anyway, we were at this 宋庆龄 Memorial place, where her grave is... and we found out lots of her history as well. and there was this park so we walked around there and enjoyed the scenery.

everyone was so full of respect for her... our LG was telling us that even the trees, miraculously, showed their respect to her... its like some unusual phenomenon cos you could really notice the leaves all faced toward her statue.

after that it was a hurried trip to the 外滩 The Bund... cos it was foggy there was nothing much we could see so we just walked along... and it was starting to get cold! that weekend was not very 暖, in fact it was the weekend just right before Shanghai had their snow storms!

after that was a simple dinner and we had to rush to sit the cruise as 元师傅 had actually 'predicted' that the fog was gonna be less than the next day's. which was true la. so although we had a long day, i guess it was worth it taking the last cruise down 黄浦江! :) but before the cruise, we actually went to the 大剧院杂技秀 Acrobatics Show. which... was similar to the one we saw in 杭州. but ah well. this time, there were more daredevil stunts. below's the picture of 5 motorcycles in the metal ball! it was crazy man. though i almost fell asleep during the usual acrobatics stuff, i was wide awake during this one! i actually got the video of the 5 motors inside so... shall upload it soon. :) hahah really made our hearts skip a beat!

so then, we took the 游船 to cruise down the 黄浦江! loved the night view so so much! reminded me of the scenes in 轉角 where 心蕾 and 秦朗 got drunk! haha. and there was this cute capt on board! haha. so anw... it was all dark and slightly foggy so the pictures hardly turned out nice but this one below's my fave. kept going up to the deck though it was freaking chilly to take pretty pictures. Mum the scaredy cat kept grumbling that it was freezing her butt off so she and Mama stayed in the viewing deck only. haha. sad.

it was really late by the time the cruise ended, like... almost 11? everyone was exhausted esp our driver who drove like... super long that day. so we checked into the hotel and as usual i'd catch my daily dose of tv! haha the shows there are super entertaining la. haha. Hotel for the day: 云悦酒店 (click) which was a 5 min walking distance from 城隍庙! its huge la that hotel! was quite happy with it cos they had lcd tvs in the rooms once again! and its a new hotel which opened less than 1 yr ago as well!

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tomorrow's results. i finally finished Day 6. left with 3 days! haha.
just wish me luck. :D
will be praying for all friends who are in the same boat as me.

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